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Author:   K. Jaishankar
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.560kg
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9780367596262

ISBN 10:   0367596261
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   30 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv Editor xxiii Contributors xxv Section I INTERPERSONAL CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN Gender-Based Street Harassment: An International Perspective 3 JANICE JOSEPH Marital Rape: A Socially and Legally Warranted Crime in India 17 AKANSHA SINGH Homelessness: A Consequence of Abuse of Women in Brisbane, Australia 29 HELENA MENIH AND CATRIN SMITH Market Women and Their Crime Reporting Practices in Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria 41 JOHNSON OLUWOLE AYODELE Discrimination and Victimization of Women at the Workplace in Serbia: Prevalence and Characteristics 55 VESNA NIKOLIĆ-RISTANOVIĆ, SANJA ĆOPIĆ, AND BEJAN ŠAĆIRI Fear of Crime among Women in Tiruchirappalli, India: A Spatial Examination of Transit Spaces 73 C. HANNAH, G. SUBBAIYAN, AND T. SRINIVAS vii viii Contents Section II INTERPERSONAL CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN AND YOUTH Restorative Practices for Juveniles in Hawai’i, United States 87 LORENN WALKER Prevention of Interpersonal Crimes and Violence among Children and Youth through Virtue Education: A Roadmap 97 JOHN CHRISTOPHER AND JOHAN DE TAVERNIER Underage Commercial Sex and Criminal Prosecutions in Singapore: Who Are the Real Victims? 111 S. CHANDRA MOHAN Section III CULTURE CONFLICT AND VICTIMIZATION OF GROUPS Policing Domestic Violence in South Africa 125 DORAVAL GOVENDER Domestic Violence Legislation and Its Application in Serbia: The Impact of Gender of the Offender and Other Factors 141 VESNA NIKOLIĆ-RISTANOVIĆ AND LJILJANA STEVKOVIĆ Labeling of Denotified Tribes: Revisiting the Ramoshis in Maharashtra, India 163 DATTATREYA BHANDALKAR Sex Trafficking in Gujarat, India: Case Studies of Women Victims Turned Offenders 177 PAVITHRAN NAMBIAR AND SUHAS P. NAMBIAR How Can Victimology Become Positive? 191 NATTI RONEL Contents ix Section IV

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K. Jaishankar is Professor of Criminology and Head of the Department of Criminology at the Raksha Shakti University (Police and Internal Security University), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Prior to this present position, he served as a faculty member at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. He has published more than 101 publications, including articles, books, book chapters, and editorials. He is the recipient of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) SCOPUS Young Scientist Award 2012 – Social Sciences and ISC – S.S. Srivastava Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research in Criminology. He was a Commonwealth Fellow (2009-2010) at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, UK, and has completed a research project on victims of cyber crimes. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cyber Criminology and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences He is the founding President of the South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (SASCV) and founding Executive Director (Honorary) of the Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (CCVC). He was a member of the UNODC (United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime) Core Group of Experts on Identity-related Crime (2007-08). He is a member of the Membership and Advancement Committee, World Society of Victimology (WSV); International Advisory Board for the Center for the Research and Development of Positive Criminology, Department of Criminology, Bar Illan University, Israel; Advisory Board for the Center for Cybercrime Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA; the International Cybercrime Research Centre, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, Canada; and the Scientific Commission of the International Society of Criminology (ISC); as well as Fellow of the African Center for Cyberlaw and Cybercrime Prevention. He was a discussant in the “Opening Discussion: Focusing on Victims of Crime – Comparing Crime Patterns and Improving Practice, Researchers’ Advice to Policy” of the 2012 Stockholm Criminology Symposium, and responded to questions of Beatrice Ask, Swedish Minister for Justice, and Paula Teixeria da Cruz, the Portuguese Minister for Justice. He was a Keynote Speaker at the 15th World Society of Victimology Symposium held July 2015, at Perth, Australia, and at the 14th World Society of Victimology Symposium held in May 2012, at The Hague, The Netherlands. He was recently appointed as an International Ambassador of the British Society of Criminology (BSC).

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